Vancouver Police are negotiating with a lone gunman holed up at the upscale downtown Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel.

“Shortly after 2:30 a.m. (Pacific Time) a man in his 20s walked into the hotel in possession of a handgun. The man did not point the handgun at anybody but he walked into a common area of the hotel (on the second) floor that was unoccupied,” Sgt. Randy Fincham of the Vancouver Police Department told the Toronto Star.

Fincham said the Vancouver Police Emergency Response Team began negotiating with him shortly after he entered the hotel.

“They are attempting to negotiate with him to determine exactly what he wanted,” he said.

According to one news report, so far he has only asked for a glass of water.

“Our concern at this point is to ensure the safety of the guests at the hotel as well as staff, the police officers who are there as well as the man who is there with the gun. We obviously want to have a safe resolution to this, so we will do what it takes to safely resolve it,” Fincham said.

He noted that the common area where the man is located has been cordoned off from the rest of the hotel.